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renegade05
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First off, please do not direct me to:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=104715 topic number 4 because i have read, read again, and then read once more and i am getting nowhere with that.
Can you please just address these points:
Does light slow down because of the absorption and re-emission of photons by electrons, and it appears the light is slowing down because of the slight delay this takes? but in between absorption and re-emission light is traveling at C?
Does light slow down because when it interacts with materials, those materials create electromagnetic waves that interfere with the photons slowing them down?
Or what is exactly going on here? I just need a very basic and exact answer to this question:
Do photons of light slow down through medium? and why?
THANKS!
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=104715 topic number 4 because i have read, read again, and then read once more and i am getting nowhere with that.
Can you please just address these points:
Does light slow down because of the absorption and re-emission of photons by electrons, and it appears the light is slowing down because of the slight delay this takes? but in between absorption and re-emission light is traveling at C?
Does light slow down because when it interacts with materials, those materials create electromagnetic waves that interfere with the photons slowing them down?
Or what is exactly going on here? I just need a very basic and exact answer to this question:
Do photons of light slow down through medium? and why?
THANKS!